KUALA LUMPUR: To avoid detection, a group of scammers moved their operations from Penang to an unused factory here.
However, the ruse failed to keep them under the radar as police stormed the hideout barely a month after the “migration”.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigations Department director Comm Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob said 25 suspects were arrested during the raid.
“Eleven of them are locals while the rest are Chinese nationals.
“Based on our intelligence gathering, the group moved its operations here after the situation was getting ‘hot’ in Penang, ” he said when met at the scene near Desa Tun Razak yesterday.
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PETALING JAYA: Tragedy has struck twice for the family of Nurina Edwin Abdullah, who died when a pedestrian bridge under construction collapsed on her van, killing her and a colleague.
Nurina, 47, and Norhayati Abdullah, 42, died at the scene in the incident on Wednesday evening when part of a pedestrian bridge under construction near the Middle Ring Road 2 in Desa Tun Razak here collapsed and fell on the van they were travelling in.
Her brother-in-law, Muhammad Raffidin Mohd Jufri, 33, said that she had just lost her husband last year.
“We last met three days ago when she came over for a meal, ” he said when met outside Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz mortuary here yesterday.
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ON Wednesday, a low-loader trailer transporting an excavator along the Middle Ring Road Two (MRR2) near Desa Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur, crashed heavily into the overhead scaffolding used for constructing the Sungai Besi–Ulu Klang Elevated Expressway.
The collision brought down tonnes of metal on the busy MRR2.
Trapped beneath the rubbles was a van with five people. Two passengers were killed and another two seriously injured.
The driver suffered fractures to his left shoulder, swelling of the lungs and internal bleeding.
All four passengers were middle-aged Malaysian women on their way to work at a factory located in Subang Jaya.